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Title
Northern Liberties & Spring Garden Water Works
Creator
Scott, Thomas M., artist
Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist
P.S. Duval & Co., printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a perspective view of a water works building showing a horse with a cart, people around the building talking and pumping water, and a dam leading out to the water in the background.
Probable date and lithographer based on reference in Deak, Other Voices, Other Times, page 37. "Drawn from nature by Thos. M. Scott."--text, bottom left margin. "P.S. Duval & Co's. Steam Lith. Press, Philada."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 55.56 x 70.8 cm (21 7/8 x 27 7/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_IND_001044
399852
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1422
Language
English
Subject
Waterworks--Pictorial works
Dams--Pictorial works
Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
Northern Liberties Water Works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Industry
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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